Greeks to compete in Derby Day
Representative from KU sororities and freshman residence halls will compete this weekend for trophies at the annual Sigma Chi Derby Day, announced Ward Whelan, Topeka sophomore and co-chairman of the project.
The Derby Day, which follows Greek Week activities, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Potter Lake with the traditional Derby Race, Whelan said.
Women from participating living groups earn points by snatching derbies from Sigma Chi members, he explained. The race will be followed by a picnic supper at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, activities will be moved to the Sigma Chi house and surrounding areas. Women participants will take part in numerous relays, races and contests, Whelan said, including the Derby Day Queen contest. Points accumulated in these events will determine trophy winners for the day.
Whelan said the queen candidates were chosen in their own living groups and would be judged at the Sigma Chi house.
Peace Corps prospects to take test
Seniors and graduate students wishing to apply to the Peace Corps for late summer and fall programs should take a 30-minute language aptitude test today and tomorrow, said Walt Stern, director of Kansas recruiting.
Tests will be given at 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. today and at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in 227 Fraser Hall.
Computers proven 'humanitarian'
Floyd R. Horowitz, associate professor of English, has spent the past few months proving that computers can work not only for science, but also for humanities.
The American Council of Learned Societies last year appointed Horowitz principal investigator of a project aimed at establishing a national depository for textual records available for computational re-research and teaching.
More recently, he has
published an article in the Journal of Data Education or Computing Reviews and has been invited by the Association of Computing Machinery to be a speaker in its 1969-70 Visiting Scientists Program. He is scheduled to lecture for that association on the use of computers as a research tool in the humanities.
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His interest in the computer business and possible methods of harnessing this business to work for linguistics also has led to his appointment to the Center of Cybernetics in Milan, Italy, as foreign editor of its journal.
The New Jersey Street revitalization project, sponsored by an architecture 98 class, community residents and the Lawrence business community, will begin its final weekend of work Saturday.
New Jersey group plans work
Iras Humphreys, Ashland, sophomore, said the project is designed to renovate the exterior of homes in the 1200 block of New Jersey.
The project was originally scheduled for the past three weekends, she said, but because of rain it was impossible to get people down there.
She appealed for student help. "We've got to get this done because we have a commitment to the community. They're doing what they can but they need the labor," she explained.
She added that transportation will be provided from McCollium
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Poetry Reading. 4 p.m. Robert E.
Hayden, Fisk University. Forum
Room, Kansas Union.
Deadline for Ordering & paying for
caps, gowns. 5 p.m. Union
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Le Cercle Francais se reuinra mercredi le 30 avril a 19h.30 dans la Salle Jayhawk. Programme : une programmeiale avec des chansons et des photos
A1AA. 7:30 p.m. R. H. Hepper,
McDonald-Douglas, "Manned Space
Craft." 200 Learned Hall. Also
election of officers.
Student Recital. 8 p.m. Nancy Hitt, flute. Swartwhull.
E. C. Franklin Memorial Lecture.
8:15 p.m. Dr. Ernest L. Eliel, Notre Dame University. "Heterocycles as Models in Confirmation Studies."
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Everyone will meet at headquarters at 13th and New Jersey Streets, she said, where they will be assigned to paint houses, fix roofs or gravel a driveway.
PHOTOFINISHING
Miss Humphreys said persons in the community will serve lunch Saturday. She added that materials will be provided, and said all that is needed is labor.
"This is a real opportunity for students who feel they want to be involved, to participate in a small, but essential community project," she added.
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